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Leonardtown High School

Leonardtown, MD 20650

Phone: (301) 475-0200
District: St. Mary's County Public Schools

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public • Grades 9,10,11,12 • 2056 students

Leonardtown High School, a public school located in Leonardtown, MD, serves grades 9-12 in the St. Mary's County Public Schools.It has received a GreatSchools Rating of 8 out of 10, based on a variety of school quality measures.

Leonardtown High School is a public school located in Leonardtown, MD. 2056 students attend Leonardtown High School.

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Category	Rating	Details
Test Scores	8/10	The Test Score Rating examines how students at this school performed on standardized tests compared with other schools in the state. The Test Rating was created using 2025 Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program data from Maryland State Department of Education, and using 2025 Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program End-Of-Course data from Maryland State Department of Education.
College Readiness	8/10	The College Readiness Rating uses this high school's graduation rates, college entrance exam participation and performance, or AP, IB, or Dual Enrollment participation to determine how well schools are preparing students for success in college and beyond. The College Readiness Rating was created using the following data from the 2021 Civil Rights Data Collection: percentage of students enrolled in IB, AP or Dual Enrollment classes in grades 9-12, using 2025 4-year high school graduation rate data from Maryland State Department of Education, using 2025 Average SAT score data from Maryland State Department of Education, and using 2026 demographic data from Maryland State Department of Education.

Posted: April 18, 2026

Both of my kids attended and had very positive experiences. They were involved in multiple clubs, the marching band, and the Tech Center. Five stars from me!

Posted: April 18, 2026

Posted: March 11, 2026

My daughter has enjoyed her time at LHS. The teachers are wonderful and engaging. The academics are at a high standard and there are many honors and AP classes to choose from. Also it is located next to the Tech center, making it easy to share time with that school. Her hands on application at LHS and the Tech center has set her up for college success.

Posted: March 11, 2026

Posted: December 29, 2025

Like any school, there are a few bad teachers and unfortunately many of them are in the math department. It is the #1 public high school to attend in our area. We have had 2 of our kids graduate from LHS, both went into the Marines, but they are also attending college. One for engineering and the other IT. If your family I moving here, make sure to look at the schools new redistricting boundries (2025-2026).

Posted: November 4, 2025

The best public High School in St Mary's. There's a reason folks go out of the way to buy in the Leonardtown district. The sports program is Great! Minimal problems, grounded policies, respectful student body.

Posted: November 4, 2025

Posted: November 27, 2024

As a former student at Leonardtown High School, this school should be your last option. They have an emphasis on sports and not merit. Even then, if you are not a overperforming athlete, you are given little attention. Parts of the school are in disrepair but they instead pour their money into sports, ignoring everything else. If you are not in any AP classes you are not encouraged to do better and instead you are pushed through the class and given work like its day care. Students had such underdeveloped critical thinking, writing, or reading skills that the teacher would end up just taking over or giving them the answer. Most of the student body would rather smoke in the bathroom, disrupt class, or not even show up. Those who did show up to class were on their phone the whole time with no consequence. It doesn't help that on average a class size would be well into the thirty's. Students are packed into the school like sardines in a can, walking through the hall was often an awful experience. You would be pushed up against another person barley moving. If you were failing the class, parents would receive an email or would schedule a conference, so parent engagement was not scarce. There was often no discipline at the school at all. If you were caught smoking or being disruptive in anyway you would received two days or more of in school suspension. This would do absolutely nothing as the behavior is not discouraged, it is just as good as "don't do it again". Bomb and school shooting threats which were taken seriously and security would be bolstered. Making friends at the school is not that hard if you find the right group. However there were often "groups of friends" that would be disruptive, rude, indecent, and at times racist. These were often the people that would instigate fights or rev their truck in the school parking lot. If you were lucky enough to get a parking pass, the parking lot was usually full, and people that counterfeited parking passes did not help the parking shortage. The Dr. James A. Forrest Career & Technology Center( The Tech Center) which is on the Leonardtown High School property is excellent and provides indispensable skills. Overall, the education at this school is below average, there is weak enforcement of rules, and the staff is incompetent.

Posted: November 27, 2024

Posted: October 25, 2022

If you are in the top 5% of your class they actually teach your children and encourage them to come to school, if you are an average student or are not taking a varsity sport to a regional championship you can come, but they really don't want you there. I have my third student at Leonardtown High School and their experience has been very different from my first two students. The first two were average students, with excellent behavior, who were never shown any encouragement or care the entire time they were there. My third student is continuously encouraged to do everything and is fully supported by the school, but this child excels academically and athletically. I knew the disparity existed, but until I was able to fully actualize the difference in treatment I did not realize how much my first two students missed out on and just how marginalized they were. The school is a pressure cooker and the only thing worse than how the students treat one another is how the staff treats the kids who are not out there making the school shine at the state level. The coaches can treat players that are not D1 bound horribly and are 100% backed up by an athletic director that only cares about the facilities and barely interacts with the athletes. The drug culture is in full effect but they pretend it doesn't exist. We just got an email last week alerting us to the fact that there have been way too many fights and acts of violence this year. In addition, the water at the school is currently contaminated with e-coli and no one can wash their hands or drink the water. So how they have a 9/10 rating is beyond me.

Posted: October 25, 2022

Posted: December 6, 2015

I have a Freshman and Junior at LHS and I have to say we are all disappointed. The students show very little respect for their teachers and the teachers do not follow through on discipline. The only class my 11th grader likes is a social studies class because all of the students in this class want to be there! My 9th grader regularly tells me that most of his class mates are more interested in checking their cell phones and chatting with other students than paying attention to the teachers. If that is how students today are behaving then it is a sad state of affairs. Online public school does not exist in MD or I would have pulled my kids out of LHS already. I heard great things about LHS, but there is no respect from the students and that is really bad.

Posted: December 6, 2015

Both of the kids regularly have good amounts of homework to do. Though they are allowed to work on it in class sometimes.

Posted: December 6, 2015

My kids regularly get asked by other students to give them the answers and when they are involved in projects of 3 or 4 students most of them don't do the work

Posted: January 14, 2014

As a former English instructor at the local community college, I taught many LHS students. Very few were proficient. Most had little knowledge of grammar. Many struggled with writing a basic essay. I believe the school's emphasis on sports over academics; a known, but ignored, drug culture; lack of discipline; and a desire for an impressive graduation rate at the expense of holding students accountable are all factors. My own children graduated from this high school, and although bright, received neither the necessary background in writing nor study skills to easily transition to college.

Reviews provided by GreatSchools^™

Ruthie02
Navy, O-3
30-40 years old
Previously lived in: Pax River, Virginia Beach, San Diego, Pensacola FL
Silver medal

Reviewed: April 24, 2012

This school has a great reputation.

Recommendations: Evergreen Elementary and Leonardtown Elementary
Website: http://schools.smcps.org/lhs/

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1	Forrest Farms	Neighborhood/Subdivision	Hollywood	MD	3.1 mi
2	Clark's Rest	Neighborhood/Subdivision	Leonardtown	MD	3.1 mi
3	Leonard's Grant	Neighborhood/Subdivision	Leonardtown	MD	3.5 mi
4	Wildewood	Neighborhood/Subdivision	California	MD	4.7 mi
5	Primrose Park in Wildwood	Neighborhood/Subdivision	California	MD	4.8 mi
6	Hunting Quarter	Neighborhood/Subdivision	Callaway	MD	5 mi
7	Estates of Joy Chapel	Neighborhood/Subdivision	Hollywood	MD	5.5 mi
8	Beverly Hills	Neighborhood/Subdivision	California	MD	5.9 mi
9	Cecil's Mill	Neighborhood/Subdivision	Great Mills	MD	6.4 mi
10	Willow Woods	Neighborhood/Subdivision	Lexington Park	MD	8.4 mi
11	Pembrooke	Neighborhood/Subdivision	Lexington Park	MD	8.6 mi
12	Greenbrier	Neighborhood/Subdivision	Lexington Park	MD	9.7 mi
13	The Moorings Cedar Cove	Neighborhood/Subdivision	Lexington Park	MD	11.1 mi
14	Chesapeake Ranch Estates	Neighborhood/Subdivision	Lusby	MD	11.9 mi

#	Name	City	State	Distance
1	Leonardtown Area	Leonardtown	MD	2.5 mi
2	Callaway	Callaway	MD	5.4 mi
3	City of California Area	California	MD	6.1 mi
4	Great Mills Road	Lexington Park	MD	7.3 mi
5	Pembrooke	Lexington Park	MD	8.7 mi
6	Navy Recreation Center (NRC) Solomons	Solomons	MD	8.8 mi
7	Calvert Marine Museum & River Boat Tour	Solomons	MD	9 mi
8	Solomon's Island	Solomons	MD	9.1 mi
9	Lexington Park Area	Lexington Park	MD	9.5 mi
10	Lusby Area	Lusby	MD	11.1 mi
11	Calvert County	Prince Frederick	MD	18.7 mi

Base	Distance
Patuxent River NAS	10.7 mi.
Dahlgren NSWC	23.3 mi.
Indian Head Naval Base	37.7 mi.
Andrews AFB	40 mi.
Fort AP Hill	40.9 mi.
Fort Belvoir	42.1 mi.
Bolling AFB Joint Base Anacostia	45.1 mi.
Coast Guard Headquarters DC	46.5 mi.
Washington Navy Yard	46.7 mi.
Fort McNair	46.9 mi.
Marine Barracks Washington	46.9 mi.
Mark Center Alexandria	47.4 mi.
Pentagon	48 mi.
Henderson Hall	48.4 mi.
Quantico Marine Base	49.2 mi.
Fort Myer	49.3 mi.
US Naval Academy	49.7 mi.

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